Get out summaries, task sheets, etc for lit circles.
Group leaders: Get group notebook and begin checking off checker sheet
Jumpstarter question 4- answer in RWWS notebook until class is ready to start
Announcement:
IR project turn in- On Google Drive in IR folder (titled IR Project 1) or in person if it CAN'T be put on GOOGLE Drive
Lit Circle Discussions
REMEMBER:
Name and Date EVERYTHING
Be as detailed and specific as possible
Get into the discussion- don't just go through the motions.
Homework:
Notebooks due tomorrow
IR projects due tomorrow
5th period: prepare for lit circle discussion Friday
10/3/13 Due (All): RWWS notebooks, IR projects
Opening Activity:
Get out IR projects and notebooks (with self- evaluations!) and turn in in the appropriate place.
Log in to google drive and then get out something to read until all are ready
Mid-semester reflections
Homework:
5th period: prepare for lit circle discussion Friday (complete summaries on a piece of notebook paper and we will attach to RWWS notebooks later)
10/4/13 5th period
Meet in cottage 1
Lit Circle discussions
10/14/13 No School- teacher work day
10/15/13
Opening Activity:
Retrieve your notebooks from the front
Review your rubric for your notebook.
Staple your rubric on the next blank LEFT page
On the next RIGHT blank page reflect on the following question:
What did you do well with your notebook? What could you have done to improve your notebook grade? Do you see any patterns in relation to your scores from the rubric (i.e.- Did you slack off partway through the marking period? Did you do really well on SOME questions, but not all? Why?)
Notebooks:
25 pt curve- this time only
This is where you show me that you are learning- so SHOW ME
Write, write, write! All entries should be 5-7 sentence MINIMUM
Missing entries KILLED some of your grades.
EVERYDAY you have 10-15 minutes to write in your notebook- what are you doing with this time?
You had an entire period (plus several days not in class) to fix notebooks- why didn't you use it?
Literacy Circle Meetings
Get a "lit circle checker" sheet out
Take out research notes, summaries, and role sheets for meeting
Group leader: begin checking assignment completion
Group members: Jump starter question 5 (or 6) in RWWS notebooks
Wait until all are ready
Continue into literacy circle discussion (start with research notes, then go into roles)
When finished: get role sheets for next discussion and remind group members what pages should be read for MONDAY's discussion
Mountain Trip
Reminders for tomorrow- be @ CEC between 5:30 and 5:45- bus LEAVES at 6:00- with or without you!
Materials (poems and task sheet) in google drive (13-14 RWWS Shared Folder --> Poetry --> Poetry Folders --> Dreams and Clouds)
Answer questioning in RWWS notebook in COMPLETE sentences
Answer questions on next RIGHT blank page (need an opposite left blank page as well)
Title "On Dreams and Clouds"
Code- RL 4-1, RL 10-1, RL 1-1, RL 2-3, RL 4-2, L 5a-1, L 5a-2
Lit Circle projects due MONDAY
5th- Thursday Letter
10/31/13 Due (5th): Thursday Letters
Opening Activity: Word of the Day- Metaphor (The Road Not Taken)
Poetry Folders
Adolescence (on LEFT blank page opposite from the questions you answered):
Looking at the poem "Summer," what effect is created by the narrator's use of imagery in the poem? Include two examples from the text to support your answer.
On Dreams and clouds (on LEFT blank page opposite from the questions you answered)
Looking at the poem "A Dream Deferred," what effect is created by the narrator's use of imagery in the poem? Include two examples from the text to support your answer.
Langston Hughes
Materials (poems and task sheet) in google drive (13-14 RWWS Shared Folder --> Poetry --> Poetry Folders --> Langston Hughes)
Answer questioning in RWWS notebook in COMPLETE sentences
Answer questions on next RIGHT blank page (need an opposite left blank page as well)
10/2/13
10/3/13
Due (All): RWWS notebooks, IR projects
10/4/13
5th period
10/14/13
No School- teacher work day
10/15/13
10/16- 10/18
Mountain Field Trip
Mountain Trip Alternate Assignment
10/21/13
Literacy Circle Meetings
Homework
10/22/13
- Code Jumpstarter Question 7 (RL 5-1)
- Opening Activity: Next RIGHT blank page (RL 10-1)
- Introduction to poetry
- What is the poet saying with this poem?
- What do you think this poem means?
- What are your thoughts?
- Poetry
- Writing Prompt: (SL 6-1) When would it be useful to recite a poem? Real-life situations (LEFT page)
- Listen to Poetry "The Power of Poetry:", "Poetry is for desperate occasions" (RL 9-1)
- I Carry Your Heart
- Nothing Gold Can Stay
- Spontaneous Me
- O Captain, My Captain
- Skyfall- Tennyson
- Listen to Poetry :"The Good Morrow" "Kay Ryan"
- Good Morrow
- Find Poem s: 3 poems that include striking lines and/or phrases (3 different poems)- what type of situation would this poem be useful in?
- Next RIGHT blank page, title "Occasions for Poems" (RL 5-1)
- Write down poem title, author, striking lines, and 2-3 sentences (each) describing the situation you would use this poem
- Homework:
- Finish poetry assignment from class
- IR Choice 2- choose book for IR project 2 (due THURSDAY)
- Thursday Letters (3rd period only)
10/23/1310/24/13
Due (3rd): Thursday Letters
Due (All): IR choice #2
- Opening Activity:
- Get out notes from last night and leave open on table
- Complete: IR Choice 2
- Complete: FRC East Tour
- Engrade- log in
PoetryBasicsPowerpoint.ppt
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(RL 10-1)10/25/13
3rd and 4th period
10/28/13
Would not take the garbage out!
Shel Silverstein, 1974
(and picture)
Alliteration- definition
Underline examples of alliteration
throughout the text of the poem
10/29/13
Why would an author use assonance in a poem?
What does it add to the poem?
Paste text of poem in notebook
Write definition of assonance under the poem
Underline specific examples of assonance in poem.
10/30/13
Why would an author use similes in his/her writing?
What is the purpose?
What did the similes add to "Willow and Ginkgo"?
Code- RL 4-1
Paste the text of the poem onto the page.
Write the definition of simile under the text of the poem.
UNDERLINE similes in the poem.
10/31/13
Due (5th): Thursday Letters